New Moon by Stephenie Meyer ~ Review ~

This is the second book in the Twilight series. I read the first one last week. I decided to read this series after re – watching the movies for the second time. My friend told me that this book was the most boring in the series, so I expected it to be super slow.

For me, it wasn’t that it was slow, it was just that it was annoying. It’s starts off with Jacob and Bella in love and then it ends with the characters in the same emotional state. The only character that you see change throughout this book is Jacob.

The cover of this book is really pretty, although I couldn’t really see how it connected with the story. It is black underneath it’s dust jacket with no designs or anything and silver writing. I give it ★★★ stars for over all book design.

Bella, as a character in this book, is very annoying. Even though this book is in first perspective, I found it really hard to like her. She pines after Edward forever and leads Jacob on even when she knows he likes her because she needs to feel human contact. She has zero character growth and is a really one dimensional character, whereas in the first book I found she had a little more depth to her personage.

Edward is hardly in this book so I don’t even know what to say about him. The parts that he is in, however, are him being indecisive or silent and brooding. He is the most indecisive character that I have ever read. One moment he sticking next to her no matter what and then he is leaving for Bella’s sake. Also, this thing about him not having a soul. He’s SUCH a pessimist.

Jacob Black is by far my favourite character. He has the most character growth in this book. I feel like Stephenie Meyer just had Edward leave so that she could develop Jacob’s storyline. If Edward had never left there probably wouldn’t even be a love triangle. Jacob is just so adorable and sweet to Bella. He is always there for her even though he knows that Bella loves Edward and she just keeps leading him on. He’s such a cutie.

Over all, the characters in this book are 1/3 so I give them ★★ stars.

The plot was very flat. It was all just building toward the last fifty or so pages. I liked the middle bits because of Jacob, but the beginning and the end were not very good.